Washington Policy Center

The Washington Policy Center (formerly known as the Washington Institute for Policy Studies) "is a nonpartisan, free-market, state-based think tank in Seattle, Washington, that publishes studies, sponsors events and conferences, and educates citizens on public policy issues facing Washington state. Washington Policy Center is a member of the State Policy Network, a nationwide association of free-market think tanks." 

Staff
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 * Daniel Mead Smith, President
 * Paul Guppy, Vice President for Research
 * Katie Bering, Development Director
 * Carl Gipson, Director -- Center for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
 * Todd Myers, Director -- Center for Environmental Policy
 * Mike Ennis, Director, Center for Transportation Policy & WashingtonVotes.org
 * Braden Goodwin, Operations Manager
 * Lyndsey Hartje, Communication Coordinator
 * Anna Carroll, Development Assistant

Board of Directors

 * Greg Porter, Chairman, Berntson Porter & Company, Bellevue
 * John J. Hennessy, Vice Chairman, Nuprecon, LP, Snoqualmie
 * Richard Alvord, Treasurer, Seattle
 * Hon. Emilio Cantu, former state senator, Bellevue
 * Ron Cohn, Consolidated Restaurants, Inc., Mercer Island
 * Jim Coles, Westen Peterbilt, Inc., Seattle
 * William Conner, Conner Development, Bellevue
 * John Connors, Ignition Partners, Bellevue
 * Kathy Connors, Secretary, Bellevue
 * Jim Day, Simpson Investment Co., Seattle
 * John M. Fluke, Jr., Fluke Capital Management, Bellevue
 * Hon. Kemper Freeman, Jr., Kemper Development, Bellevue
 * David Maryatt, Seattle
 * Daniel Mead Smith, President, WPC, Seattle
 * Hon. George R. Nethercutt, Jr., Lundquist, Nethercutt & Griles, Spokane
 * Amb. Della Newman, former Amb. to New Zealand, Bow
 * Ken D. Peterson, Jr., Columbia Ventures Corp., Vancouver
 * Hon. William Polk, William Polk Associates, Seattle
 * Laurent Poole, CEO, Isis on Demand LLC, Seattle
 * Sarah Rindlaub, Past Chairman, Mercer Island
 * Peter Stanton, Washington Trust Bank, Spokane
 * Al Symington, Seattle
 * Janet True, Seattle, Washington
 * Fred Weiss, The Weiss Company, Seattle
 * Roberta Weymouth, Silver Cloud Inns & Hotels, Bellevue
 * Robert L. Wiley III, Bellevue
 * Len Zarelli, Merit Company, Lakewood

Director Emeritus Source
 * Bill Baldwin, Baldwin Resource Group, Inc., Redmond
 * Richard Derham, Seattle
 * Hon. Jeannette Hayner, Walla Walla
 * Barbara Kenney, Bellevue
 * John McEachern, Seattle
 * Ed McMillan, Silverdale

Eastern Washington Advisory Board
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 * Brenda Alford, Alford Farms, Inc., Pasco
 * Steve Appel, Washington State Farm Bureau, Endicott
 * Gene Astley, Richland
 * Roy Berg, Genesis Financial, Inc.
 * Bob Brody, King Orchards, Wenatchee
 * John Condon, Spokane
 * Diane Cornwell, Wells Fargo Bank, Wenatchee
 * Earl Davenport, Colville
 * Craig Dias, Haskins Steel Co, Inc.
 * Randy Gold, Gold Construction, Wenatchee
 * Paul Gray, Gray's Electric, Inc., Wenatchee
 * Hon. Jeannette Hayner, WPC Board Member, Walla Walla
 * Rich Hadley, Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce
 * Mike Hogue, The Hogue Cellars, Prosser
 * Kris Johnson, Tri-City Area Chamber of Commerce, Kennewick
 * Kees C. Koster, Preferred Realty Inc., Pasco
 * William Lampson, Lampson International, Kennewick
 * Barbara Lisk, Office of Rep. Doc Hastings, Tri-Cities
 * Jeff Losey Executive Director, Home Builders Association of Tri-Cities
 * Blake McKinley, Sr., Spokane
 * Mike and Barbara Poulsen, WA Agriculture Legal Foundation, Connell
 * Melanie Schmitt, Tri-City Area Journal of Business, Kennewick
 * Bruce Smith, Yakima Valley Business Times, Yakima
 * Mark Sonderen Sonderen Packaging
 * John Sonneland, Spokane
 * David Stambaugh, Cle Elum
 * Heidi Stanley, Sterling Savings Bank, Spokane
 * Peter Stanton, Washington Trust Bank, Spokane
 * Dean Strawn, Dependable Janitor Service, Kennewick
 * Bob Tippett, Tippett Company, Pasco
 * Del Vanderhoff, Chamberlain Distributing, Wenatchee
 * Judi Williams, TELECT, Liberty Lake

Research Advisory Board
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 * John Castiglia, Premera Blue Cross
 * Paul Maffeo, Retired, Merrill Lynch, City of Seattle Investment Board
 * Mathew Manweller, Central Washington University
 * William Maurer, J.D., Institute for Justice
 * John Sands, Ph.D., Western Washington University
 * Roger Stark, M.D., Overlake Hospital
 * Andrew Tadie, Ph.D., Seattle University

Contact information
Website: http://www.washingtonpolicy.org

Related SourceWatch articles

 * State Policy Network
 * Think tanks

External resources

 * 2005 Annual Report (pdf)

External articles

 * Christopher Huber, "Group goes to Rachel Carson to challenge environmentalism," The Sammamish Review (Sammamish, Washington), April 28, 2009.